Hello, I'm coming up with a new project—regarding my goal to be productive during holidays. I'm planning on doing a 1 Day 1 Story (hopefully). It's sort of flash fiction challenge. Pardon my writing flaws, hope you guys enjoy it!
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"I am deeply sorry about your loss."
"Thank you for keeping him company when he was still here," the middle-aged lady replied, smiling mirthlessly despite the unfathomable grief that the parents must've felt when their only kid died in such an miserable condition.
He responded with a bitter smile nevertheless. "Your son was and will always be a great friend of mine. However..." he took a deep breath before continued, "I still can't comprehend what was going on. How could all this happened to him..."
"Neither all of us," the man with scar on his face interrupted with a rasping voice. "I know it must be hard for you too, since you're the one he was closest with."
Silence. Each of them seemed to drown in their inexplicable sorrow, until the sound of a phone call cracked it off.
"Excuse me." He went to the bathroom to answer his phone. "Hello?"
"Hello? Dear? That guy in the news, he is your friend, isn't he? I'm so sorry to hear about him. It's just terribly shocking. I mean, he was brutally murdered. Moreover the suspect is still out there..."
He didn't answer. Instead, he leaned himself to the wall and got something out of his pocket.
"Honey? Are you okay?"
It was a blood-stained photo of the middle-aged lady and the man with scar on his face.
"I'm fine."
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